Installing Drupal

Hello,

I am trying to import the config from another of my Drupal 9.1.4 projects with Composer / Drush (drush config-import from a folder source, all two websites on my local repository on Xampp), but a guzzlehttp/guzzle error is thrown in the middle of the process, whatever I try...

One of my sites has out-grown bluehost so I wanted to try out Amazon's AWS, starting with Lightsail.   The default templates make it easy to set up a legacy architecture with Maria.  I want to user composer-recommended as that is how my site is currently designed.  I've almost been able to install a site except for the mysql connection.  I created a LAMP instance and installed the basic Drupal site code with composer. I have not been able to link a database to the install, however.

I've upgraded a site from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. I did it manually, not using composer. So I downloaded the zip core tarball, and then installed modules manually (the old way, by downloading and extracting modules in modules/contrib and enabling them in "Extend" in the admin of the site). The site is working perfectly. The "status report" shows no errors and just one non-relevant warning. I seem to have read that composer was the recommended way but the old procedure could still be used.

I am using  mssql to connect with drupal but I get an error saying

• In your ./sites/default/settings.php file you have configured Drupal to use a sqlsrv server, however your PHP installation currently does not support this database type.

Update to this:

Following the instructions Drupal gave didn't work:

https://www.drupal.org/docs/official_docs/en/_local_development_guide.html

I erased everything and installed using the ddev instructions and that worked fine. 

https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/users/cli-usage/#quickstart-guides

Hello, I'm running an affiliate blog on WordPress, but I'm not satisfied with its speed, We have to use many plugins for every function.

I want to move on Drupal as I have seen it's pretty fast and professional.
Can you tell me how can I migrate to Drupal without loosing my data? Thanks!